Top 7 most famous people born on February 10

1890

Boris Pasternak
a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator.
In his native Russia, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life , is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and William Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences

1894

Harold Macmillan
a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.

1898

Bertolt Brecht
a German Marxist poet, playwright, and theatre director.

1950

Mark Spitz
an American former swimmer, nine-time Olympic champion, and former world record holder.
He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, an achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Spitz set new world records in all seven events in which he competed, a record that still stands. Since the year 1900, no other swimmer has ever gained so great a percentage of all the medals awarded for Olympic events held in a single Games

1952

Lee Hsien Loong
a Singaporean politician.
He is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore, and has been in office since 2004. He is the elder son of Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew

1964

Glenn Beck
an American television and radio host, political commentator, author, television network producer, libertarian, filmmaker and entrepreneur.
He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks and the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on the Fox News Channel and currently airs on TheBlaze. Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling books. Beck is the founder and CEO of Mercury Radio Arts, a multimedia production company through which he produces content for radio, television, publishing, the stage, and the Internet. It was announced on April 6, 2011, that Beck would "transition off of his daily program" on Fox News later in the year but would team with Fox to "produce a slate of projects for Fox News Channel and Fox News' digital properties". Beck's last daily show on the network was June 30, 2011. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list

1986

Radamel Falcao
a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United on loan from AS Monaco, and the Colombia national football team.
He is sometimes nicknamed El Tigre and King of the Europa League

Top 7 most famous people died on February 10

1755

Montesquieu
a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He did more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon, and may have been partly responsible for the popularization of the terms feudalism and Byzantine Empire

1829

Pope Leo XII
born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, reigned from 28 September 1823 to his death in 1829.

1837

Alexander Pushkin
considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

1923

Wilhelm Röntgen
a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today that was known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry named element 111, roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him

1939

Pope Pius XI
born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti , reigned from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939.
He was the first sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929. He took as his papal motto, "Pax Christi in Regno Christi," translated "The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ."

2005

Arthur Miller
an American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre.
Among his plays are All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. He also wrote the screenplay for the film The Misfits

2014

Shirley Temple
an American film and television actress, singer, dancer and public servant, most famous as a child star in the 1930s.
As an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, serving as United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia, and as Chief of Protocol of the United States